Community ManagerHey @LawnZ0mbie1,
No, there is no specific in-app toggle/option to completely close the EA app on exit.
The only way to completely 'shut down' the EA app is by clicking on Exit via the hamburger menu in the top-left corner of the app, or by right-clicking on the EA app icon in your 'hidden icons' area in your taskbar, followed by clicking on Exit.
@EA_Leeuw wrote:The only way to completely 'shut down' the EA app is by clicking on Exit via the hamburger menu in the top-left corner of the app, or by right-clicking on the EA app icon in your 'hidden icons' area in your taskbar, followed by clicking on Exit.
Which still doesn't completely close it, because as OP said, the background service doesn't close when you select Exit from the taskbar.
Use task manager to fully close the EA App service.
Do you know if this function is still coming? Having to manually close the EA app through the taskmanager is an annoying extra step, and makes me want to use the platform less
Because of this I will never purchase a product from EA ever again
What happens to my computer and my EA game if I shut down the background processes through the Task Manager? Recently upgraded my old desktop from 8.1 to Windows 10. I don't think this happened in 8.1 or maybe it has to do with more with Origin turning into EA. I really don't like it running all the time but I'm nervous that it will affect my daughter's Sims4 game and packs. There is too much money invested to lose anything or damage it.
@GLEAMFAR For me the issue was caused by Origin turning into EA. I had to close the background processes several times to start up my game (I had to do it every time I restarted by computer), and I never had issues with my game's content. All it did was remove the block that kept me from accessing the Sims' server, my game itself was unchanged.
I have to say it is alarmingly impudent forcing user to use a launcher and withholding his ability to limit the launchers access in your own system. Without much of a hustle, by closing over other programs, it just uses 200-400 mb of your memory. Not even for something useful to the user.
Simultaneously your licence, when bought from an other source but still an EA product, is not even secured through the imposed launcher. So EA gets all the rights by minimal obligations to the Customer.
Wait, customer is a thing of the past, so is the corresponding respect it seems. Like the saying; User is used for two sectors: Digital and Drugtrade. Thou i believe one of the sectors gain is more evident.
Just a nudge and not directed at you as a person. ^^
You cannot close the EA app while you are playing the game, so the EA app window is still going to pop up when you quit the game. This is not a solution.
This is a massive failure... Come on EA. Get it together.
this doesn't even fully work. I have a total of 1 game on the Epic store that's linked to EA. If I run it a single time, and then shut down all EA processes in task manager, it somehow manages to open itself when I launch literally any other game on the Epic launcher.
If you have the XBox app installed, this is one possible cause because it has EA integration. If you go to your profile pic -> Settings -> Extensions you can disable the EA App integration. For me doing so immediately closed the processes EA had in the background without me needing to end task or click anything in the system tray etc.
